"In Situ: Architecture and Landscape" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
This event has ended.
In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo, with little consideration for their surroundings. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape. Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design. "Landscape"— no longer understood merely as nature untouched— now encompasses complex interventions by architects and landscape architects in urban and rural surroundings. In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years.
[Image: Roberto Burle Marx "Garden Design Saenz Peña Square, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Plan" (1948) Gouache on paper, 24 3/8 x 40 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip L. Goodwin.]
Media
Schedule
from April 08, 2009 to January 18, 2010
Artist(s)
Roberto Burle Marx et al.